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pkulak on June 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Node.js is Backwards

Does anyone know how well Scala can handle the requirements of a typical Node.js project? IE, thousands of network connections and rather light CPU load overall? Can Scala be a Node.js or Erlang replacement?

gtani on June 14, 2011 [–]

look at some of the Akka deploys

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4493001/good-use-case-for...

http://fornax-sculptor.blogspot.com/2010/08/eda-akka-as-even...

(minimal code example)

http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user/browse_thread/threa...

There's probably similar cookbook examples and benchmark/ overhead per process measurements for F# MailboxProcessors, if you're curious

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